Hi, I'm Drew Klaber of Mitutoyo America Corporation.
I'm here with Jeremy Banks also Mitutoyo America.
Jeremy is our National Data Management Sales Specialist.
Jeremy, how are you doing today? Doing fine, thanks for having me Drew.
So, Jeremy, one application I've encountered a lot lately
is the ability to, more or less, use a data logger.
I know in the past we've had the ability to collect data using a printer,
but if I wanted to transfer it to the PC, I would have to go in
and manually type it in.
Vice versa, I could have a, you know, I could just connect the tool
directly to the PC, but what if I don't have a PC available?
So are there any options available to help bridge the gap here?
Right, right. So today we're going to talk a little bit about our DP-1 VA.
Now it's going to replace our DP-1 VR.
Primarily, it's a thermal printer.
So any time that you take a measurement with a device, it will print it out. So
for example, if I want to take data from this MDH micrometer,
I'll just hit the Data button.
The value that's on the mic. will then transfer over to the printer.
I can feed that up so everybody can read it.
So if I change this value right now and press the data button again.
There you go.
Now you can also trigger data
from the gage itself by hitting the Data button.
And there's also a footswitch adapter.
So if you wanted to use a footswitch, you could plug it in right here
and then smash on the footswitch and you get data.
And so this is keeping track of how many measurements we've taken each time.
Yeah, so this is the sixth measurement.
It has the value and it actually is recording the unit as well.
So I can see that all these measurements were in inch.
Gotcha.
Now not only can it collect the data and then,
of course, send it to the printer, but it can also send it to the PC.
So all you have to do is plug in a USB cable
and then plug it into your computer, and then you could open up
on your computer, a software like Excel or Notepad.
So this is just a micro USB cable there's nothing fancy or special about.
There's nothing proprietary.
No, no. It's one will ship with the unit, but it's just a standard cable
you can buy anywhere.
It's just plugged into the unit, plugged into my computer.
And then I have, for example, C 3 is the active cell.
So the way it's set now, I have to do is hit the Data button.
Data will be printed out and it will be sent to a keyboard entry into Excel.
Now, if you're sending the data directly into Excel,
you can go ahead and turn off the printer.
That way, you're not wasting the paper, and then you can continue to send data
into Excel by either pushing the Data button, the button on the cable,
or you can use a footswitch to trigger the data as well.
Now, that's all great.
If you're sitting in front of the computer, right?
But sometimes people want to measure parts away from the inspection station.
So in that instance, we use a data logger,
so I have to do is unplug the USB cable and then turn on the data log function.
So I'm going to hold down the Record button for three seconds.
You can see now that the log is started
and there's zero dimensions already being measured.
So we're ready to go.
So now you can just go ahead Drew, and give us some measurements.
So let's take a few measurements here.
Now, as you can see, as we're doing the measurements, we're also printing them.
But if you wanted to save on paper, you could turn off the printer
and continue measuring.
It'll still keep accumulating.
Every time you hear the beep, that's an audible to tell you
that it's taken the measurement. Great.
So let's say I've taken enough measurements now and I'm all done.
What steps do we take from here?
OK, well, from here, we're going to go ahead and stop the data logging,
so I'm going to hold down the Stop button for three seconds.
And it gives you confirmation that the log has stopped and I've measured
six pieces, as you can see, four of them were printed out.
But two of them were just stored the logger. Right.
So now we're going to go back to the inspection lab
and we're going to plug this back into my computer.
OK, so I'm going to go ahead and pick on a different cell.
And now we're basically going to collect the data from the data logger,
so all I'm going to do is hold the Output button for three seconds.
OK. Since the printer was turned off, all it gives us is our confirmation.
It doesn't print the actual measured values again,
but you can see in Excel in Column E, the data was transferred.
That's perfect. That's exactly what my customers needed. Exactly.
So now all you got to do is, you could clear out the memory
and then you could go and measure some more.
Very good. Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for your time today.
This is a great new product. Wonderful tool tips. Thank you for that.
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